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The McQueen family of Van Wyck is used to seeing wildlife like squirrels, rabbits and deer on their property, but a trail camera set up in the woods out back caught an unexpected visitor last week – a black bear.
Chris McQueen, who lives with his wife Tricia, son James, 10, and daughter Sadie, 1, on a wooded 4-acre property on Old Hickory Road, said the camera captured the bear’s image as it roamed near a spot where he’d dumped deer corn.

Dick Gannaway, who spent two decades leading this newspaper and the precursor to USC Lancaster, has died after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 89.
Dr. Gannaway died in his sleep Sunday in Nashville, family members said.
Gannaway’s career leading two of Lancaster’s best-known institutions was an unusual bridging of academia and journalism. He was director from 1972-77 of what was then known as the University of South Carolina extension, followed by a 13-year stint as publisher of The Lancaster News.

Lancaster County school officials will confer with the county election commission today about scheduling the special election to fill the school board seat vacated by James Brooks after his arrest.
“We’ll meet with election officials this week to make sure we know the timelines required by state law,” said Superintendent Gene Moore. “We’ll share this information with the board during its regular meeting next Tuesday night so the board can make an appropriate decision on filling the vacancy.”

If you want to open a bureaucratic can of worms, start asking questions about South Carolina’s voting laws. Even the people who administer them for a living give head-scratching answers.

For example, can you change the address on your voter registration without any documentation that you’ve actually moved? Could you, in this way, switch to another voting district and vote for a candidate without really living in that district?

KERSHAW – Former Gamecocks quarterback Dylan Thompson will lead the 2016 Kershaw Christmas Parade as grand marshal on Sunday.
The parade, with more than 50 entries, starts at 3 p.m. on Hampton Street downtown.
This is a first for Thompson.
“It’s really cool and something I’ve never done before,” Thompson said. “I’m excited. I get to meet some new people, make some new friends and have a good time being around them.”

Stores loaded up on sale merchandise for Friday’s traditional Black Friday crush, and customers reported smooth shopping with manageable lines through much of the day, compared to previous Thanksgiving weekends.

At Lancaster’s Walmart, the checkout lines were relatively short through the morning, but the electronics department had a lot of traffic, and plenty of televisions left from the big sale that started the night before.